A first-year charter school is feuding again with the Sequoia Union High School District over facilities, this time rejecting the district’s preliminary proposal to house it on Woodside High School’s campus in the fall.

A top administrator for Everest Public High School sent a letter to the district on Monday turning down the district’s plan for the school’s second year, saying the Woodside offer “prohibits the basic functioning of a school” and violates state charter school law.

The rejection marks the beginning of the latest dispute between the district and Everest, which sued the district last year claiming an earlier offer to place the school in East Palo Alto was also illegal.

Whether the district will defend its latest proposal or revise it remains unclear. The issue appeared as an informational item on the school board’s agenda Wednesday, but Superintendent Pat Gemma said trustees shouldn’t discuss it because of the ongoing lawsuit.

“Our attorneys have advised the board it’s not appropriate because of that lawsuit to make comments on this response,” Gemma said.

Gemma said the board will decide how to react in closed session and then vote on the district’s final offer to Everest in a public meeting by April 1.

The district’s preliminary proposal to Everest, which is currently housed in an office building in Redwood City, includes six regular classrooms and one science lab at Woodside, plus the shared use of two other classrooms.

District administrators said Everest would have space for a library, a reception area, a director’s office and the shared use of other campus facilities such as a multipurpose room and a kitchen.

But Everest said the Woodside plan doesn’t make provisions for special education, specialized courses like art and music, physical education or counselors.

It would also only house the school for the 2010-11 academic year, requiring it to move again the next year, which Everest said would be “an extreme hardship,” according to the letter from Diane Tavenner, executive director of the Summit Institute, the group behind Everest and its sister school Summit Prep, which is also chartered by the district.

Tavenner asked the district to reconsider Everest’s request to be placed on Sequoia High School’s campus in Redwood City, which she said is more central to the district’s attendance area.

The district, which denied Everest’s charter petition in late 2008 but was later overruled by the state board of education, proposed last year to put Everest in several portable classrooms on Green Street in East Palo Alto for its inaugural year.

The school turned down the offer, saying it lacked basic amenities such as public transportation and kitchen facilities. Everest then filed a lawsuit against the district in July claiming the district violated Proposition 39, the 2000 state ballot measure that requires local school districts to offer charter schools facilities that are “reasonably equivalent” to those used by other students in the district.

The district says its Green Street offer complied with the law, and the lawsuit between the two sides is ongoing with a jury trial scheduled for Aug. 16.